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...said she “disclosed pretty openly [her] history” in her application essay, as she felt that she was “in a position where [her] academic background merits a lot of explaining...
...pretty well academically, but socially, it was just was a mess,” Woo said. “I struggled really, really badly with the disparity in wealth there. I was not at all prepared I think for the cultural divide between the background I came from and the amount of wealth at the school...
...music, chosen by director Sniderman, also battles with some of the actors’ elegantly delivered soliloquies. It is hard to concentrate on a sorrowful speech when a woman is light-heartedly tra-la-la-ing in a foreign language in the background...
...death, perhaps returning to Earth after a period in Elysium. Jodi Leigh Allen, who will teach jazz classes next semester at the Harvard Dance Center, choreographed and costumed “B-Side,” another standout premiere. Dancers clad in black moved against a fiery red background to the artificial sounds of a synthesizer to produce a striking effect. The rigid movements of the men contrasted powerfully and sensually with the women’s grace. The ballet “Emeralds,” staged by Heather Watts, featured the choreography of George Balanchine and solo performance...
...playing music. Sacks treats all these cases with a mixture of compassion, humor, and curiosity. He is especially careful not to turn his patients into objects of detached scientific study, always emphasizing their humanity and his own emotional investment in their cases.The essays are filled with easily understandable background scientific information as well as fascinating anecdotes about writers, philosophers, musicians, and composers. It might strike you to learn that John Stuart Mill, for example, turned to music to help ease his chronic depression, or that Ravel, Stravinsky, and Berlioz all composed original music in their dreams. Sacks also includes anecdotes...